Get Ready, Set, GO

I was waiting to write the Brizy Pro launch post since Brizy came to life a couple of months back. As you may already know we were (and still are) hard at work on Brizy Pro that will bring extended features and functionalities and thus more power to let you create websites even faster & easier.

I’m excited to let you know we are nearly there with a lot of functionality already done and after our team’s meeting last week we’ve decided it’s time to roll out the Pro.

We’ve made a plan on how we want this to happen that I want to present to you right now.

The Brizy Pro launch plan

As much as we want the confetti and popping of the champagne launch, this will not be it. Well, maybe we’ll have that eventually, but what we want for the Brizy Pro launch is to do it in stages spread over the next month or so.

We think there are some benefits to this approach:

– We’ll be able to carefully bring the Pro to life one feature at a time and make sure all the pieces fit together just right

– We’ll be able to test and fix the eventual issue before adding the next features

– You’ll be able to get through every feature and get to know it & get comfortable with it

Brizy updates in the near future

The 1st Pro build we plan to release by the end of this week /early next week.

After the Brizy Pro launch later this week, we aim to have a Pro update every week. The idea is to have all the features that are already done included in the Pro until mid-end September and continue to add from there all the features as they are ready (eg. A/B testing, White label, etc).

Of course, depending on what issues will pop-up that need development hours the timeline might change a bit. What follows is a list of features we plan to add to Brizy.

Although we will do our best to stick to the plan of releases, there are variables that might impact that and the order might change. This list should be used as a guidelineonly for you to make an idea of what’s coming in terms of updates.

TOMORROW (22 AUG)

Image Lightbox(Free)– a long time coming feature 🙂

WordPress templates (Free)– there will be not much use for it now, but this will prepare some things for the dynamic content features to come and you’ll be able to use it with the header and footer.

Featured Image (Free)– we’ve moved the WordPress featured image in the front-end. Not much use now, but there will be options that will use the featured image. Mainly the dynamic content that will come in a couple of weeks.

Premium Designed Pages (Pro)– we’ll add part of the premium designed pages. We’ll continue to add new pages frequently.

Custom Styles (Free & Pro) – the premium designed pages will come with font and color styles of their own. Using the custom style option you’ll be able to switch the styles on the fly without the need to load a specific page.

Header / Footer (Free&Pro)– this will let you add and create headers and footers. Together with the Block Conditions that will come in the next update you’ll be able to apply the headers and footers on all the pages of your website.

Menu (Pro) – an extended version of the navigation Menu that can be found in Brizy Free.

NEXT

Block Conditions (Pro)– you’ll be able to set block conditions based on different parameters.

Style Copy / Paste(Free)– this will be a quality of life update and will help you copy paste styles for similar elements/columns/rows, etc.

NEXT

Forms Integrations(Pro)– you’ll be able to integrate your forms with different external services like MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, Convert Kit, Zapier, Drip and more.

NEXT

Mega Menu (Pro) – you will be able to create custom mega menus for your header menu

NEXT

Notification / Promo Bar (Pro) – we’ll add a bar element that can be used to display certain notifications/promos/banners/whatever you build in it 🙂 to your users. This element can be closed by the user if you enable that option.

NEXT

Typekit Integration(Pro)– you’ll be able to link your Typekit account with Brizy and use your font library from Typekit.

NEXT

Unsplash (Pro) – this will be very handy for designers or developers that will create client websites. When you add images on your page, you’ll be able to search, filter and select Unsplash images directly from the Brizy interface.

NEXT

A / B Testing (Pro)– you’ll be able to create split testing for the content created with Brizy.

NEXT

White Label (Pro) – you’ll be able to remove all the Brizy branding and replace it with your own. Useful for anyone that creates client websites and want to present the builder with the company or personal branding.

Lifetime Deal

In case you are wondering, we plan to keep the Lifetime Deal going a bit longer until we transition to a yearly recurring license model. We’ll do that once the Pro has more meat on it. Most likely mid-end October. (This might change as we go).

The30 days money back guaranteed will start counting once we remove the Lifetime deal from our website and we transition on the regular yearly recurring licensing system.

Conclusions

We are very excited to start pushing the Pro features out and bring everything together one update at a time. What’s important to mention is that we’ll continue to address everything listed and discussed on GitHub and added to our Roadmap.

We are committed to delivering the promise of Brizy and especially Brizy Pro. Know that even if there are still some features missing (we know every one of them) and we might still miss some deadlines (not because we want to), we never lose the focus and we always have our eyes on the final objective: To Make Brizy the Easiest & Fastest Way to Create Websites.

And with your help & support, this will be delivered.

Thank you

Before I go I’d like to thank all our early adopters, supporters and Facebook community members. You guys are basically fuelling the development of Brizy. Not only with financial resources but with tremendous ideas and feedback. Thank you!

Article by Dimi

One of the designers and co-founders of Brizy and ThemeFuse, Dimi is a detail-obsessed freak that has a passion for design, WordPress, and products with great usability. He is always happy to share and connect with others. Drop him a line.